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Re: here we go again? [gagrice]

by larsb on Wed Sep 24 10:46:27 PDT 2008

There are not many cities who have anti-solar panel ordinances. There was a case in CA recently where a neighbor had a tree blocking another neighbor's solar panel, and the solar panel guy won the case. Tree had to be cut so it would not block the panels. I think your "solar enemies" opinion for CA is flawed. I think there are FAR more people pushing solar than there are anti-solar agendas. I can look it up and post proof if you want, but that is my "shoot-from-the-hip" quickie opinion. P.S. Found something. Looks like the "localized opposition" is just upset that they might be putting large solar arrays out on open desert land. The don't oppose solar power - they just prefer it to be "rooftop" installations and not to be just taking up space in the open desert. NY Times story Terry Frewin, the chairman of the Sierra Club’s California/Nevada desert committee, wrote to the club’s executive director, Carl Pope, in July, criticizing him for backing large-scale solar projects. “Remote solar arrays destroy all native resources on site, and have indirect and irreversible impacts on surrounding wildernesses,” Mr. Frewin wrote. He urged the Sierra Club to embrace distributed generation as an alternative to the “industrial renewable” option.

Re: Jeep starts and dies after 30-60 minutes driving [behenness]

by nworbekim on Sun Aug 03 09:12:33 PDT 2008

i'm unable to answer your question regarding wiring, but possibly you have 2 problems? when i first bought my wrangler, my fuel pump would quit on me after a short time of driving... i found i could beat on the bottom of the fuel tank near the right bottom side where you find a bump... and it would start up again... i had the pump replaced... had to drop the tank, the **** thing is INSIDE!!! and these days of cheap, trashy fuel, it may just be the filter, which is inside too... so the 2 problems may seem related, but actually not? i don't know... i've seen wilder things... i was told while writing this that there is a download using limewire or bitttorrent of a cdrom disk that has all the jeep wrangler parts, repair stuff, etc... on it... i don't know if its a bootleg (pirated) copy or not... might be worth a look... i'm still trying to figure out what size flares i need for mine... seeya!

Re: SAFETY ISSUE

by snowboarder4 on Thu Jun 19 10:53:47 PDT 2008

Comment: This is a SAFETY issue and HAZARD to the driver, passengers in the Prius and other drivers if the car runs out of fuel! Reply: In response to concerns about fuel capacity and safety, I operate my vehicle in very remote areas under severe environmental conditions. As a career driver, I take precautions to ensure my safety with any vehicle. Whether driving in the flatlands of Texas or the summits of Colorado, I recommend that an operator take rest breaks more frequently than a full tank of fuel. With a rest break every 4 hours at a safe 60 MPH, an operator travels 240 miles. At a more frequently fatal crash speed of 70 MPH, that means 280 miles. Even at 300 miles, that is associated with 6 gallons of fuel. Fill the tank slowly, patiently, and there is no problem with being unable to add 6 gallons of fuel and getting out of the vehicle to circulate oxygen to the brain to ensure safe operation of the vehicle. Furthermore, if you are concerned about safety, then you certainly always travel with emergency food, clothing, a sleeping bag, water filter, water bottle, cell phone, first aid kit, extra battery jump kit and 12 volt power source, air pump, magnesium fire starter, knife, multi-functional tool, maps, GPS, LED trail light, yellow strobes or fusies, and other gear to be prepared for your personal safety in the event of any mechanical failure or environmental condition. I do. I have never needed my emergency gear on the road, except to help others less prepared than me. I use my gear regularly on wilderness trails. I always have it in my vehicle. I know people who have died without it. If you need a list of survival gear that should be in your pack, refer to: Greatest Hikes in Central Colorado, pages 44-46.

Re: BMW X3 is Afraid of Mercedes GLK but not Audi Q5 [tagman]

by dewey on Thu Jun 12 07:24:27 PDT 2008

California you say? Doesn't surprise me at all. Most auto forums are predominantly populated by Califronians. Even within this forum a Pennsylvanian (Lexusguy) and a Kansas fellow (Houdini) have Califronia roots. Anyways I am booking out of Hotel California today and booking into a rustic lodge cabin in the wilderness of Yellowstone Park this week. Take care and talk to you folks soon.

high prices not always bad

by larsb on Sat May 31 07:41:52 PDT 2008

This guy makes a lot of good points. Higher Gas Prices can only help us Americans should be celebrating rather than shuddering over the arrival of $4-a-gallon gasoline. We lived on cheap gas too long, failed to innovate and now face the consequences of competing for a finite resource amid fast-expanding global demand. A further price rise as in Europe to $8 a gallon -- or $200 and more to fill a large SUV's tank -- would be a catalyst for economic, political and social change of profound national and global impact. We could face an economic squeeze, but it would be the pain before the gain. The U.S. economy absorbed a tripling in gas prices in the last six years without falling into recession, at least through March. Ravenous demand from China and India could see prices further double in the next few years -- and jumpstart the overdue process of weaning ourselves off fossil fuels. Consider the world of good that would come of pricing crude oil and gasoline at levels that would strain our finances as much as they're straining international relations and the planet's long-term health: 1. RIP for the internal-combustion engine They may contain computer chips, but the power source for today's cars is little different than that which drove the first Model T 100 years ago. That we're still harnessed to this antiquated technology is testament to Big Oil's influence in Washington and success in squelching advances in fuel efficiency and alternative energy. Given our achievement in getting a giant mainframe's computing power into a handheld device in just a few decades, we should be able to do likewise with these dirty, little rolling power plants that served us well but are overdue for the scrap heap of history. 2. Economic stimulus Necessity being the mother of invention, $8 gas would trigger all manner of investment sure to lead to groundbreaking advances. Job creation wouldn't be limited to research labs; it would rapidly spill over into lucrative manufacturing jobs that could help restore America's industrial base and make us a world leader in a critical realm. The most groundbreaking discoveries might still be 25 or more years off, but we won't see massive public and corporate funding of research initiatives until escalating oil costs threaten our national security and global stability -- a time that's fast approaching. 3. Wither the Middle East's clout This region that's contributed little to modern civilization exercises inordinate sway over the world because of its one significant contribution -- crude extraction. Aside from ensuring Israel's security, the U.S. would have virtually no strategic or business interest in this volatile, desolate region were it not for oil -- and its radical element wouldn't be able to demonize us as the exploiters of its people. In the near term, breaking our dependence on Middle Eastern oil may well require the acceptance of drilling in the Alaskan wilderness -- with the understanding that costly environmental protections could easily be built into the price of $8 gas. 4. Deflating oil potentates On a similar note, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently gained a platform on the world stage because of their nations' sudden oil wealth. Without it, they would face the difficult task of building fair and just economies and societies on some other basis. How far would their message resonate -- and how long would they even stay in power -- if they were unable to buy off the temporary allegiance of their people with vast oil revenues?

Re: Deep well [scottl]

by coontie66 on Sat May 24 08:29:28 PDT 2008

The tree hugging environmentalists have our country in a total strangle hold. They have kept nukes from being built now for 40 years and also oil refineries. There is not many congressmen / congresswomen that have ever stood up to their loud rhetoric and told them to be quite. We can't drill for oil in ANWAR, we can't drill off the FL coast, we can't drill off CA, we don't want a oil refinery NIBY, we have tons of natural gas in AK but not pipelines cause of the same nonsense we discussed in 1975 with the first pipeline, we can't have a NUKE cause it MIGHT / MAY have a problem... we can't cut trees in the National Forests because it looks bad and MIGHT do something like allow someone to build a house with cheaper lumber, we can't put a road into the National Forest because the tree hugger doesn't want to see the road when he WALKS into the "wilderness area". Have you ever noted the use of the words such as MAY, MIGHT etc. That just means the environmentalists don't know what they are talking about and are guessing the outcome of some action. Their guessing the outcome has our country really in a PICKLE now. The current politician running for president says he wants CHANGE AND IS THE AGENT OF CHANGE. He says he MAY be that agent... I think its going to be just more of the same until someone asks for PROOF of what they say MAY happen. Personally I think the country MAY go to H**l because of what MAY happen next. We needed Nukes yesterday and we needed more fuel efficient cars yesterday. I still remember seeing the first really excessive gas guzzler Ford Excursion I think it was in 1998 and thinking to my self this MAY be excessive and a waste of gas and $$$ (seems like the president at that time has a wife running now). And then there was the HUMMER... HUMM? Now, there are the McMansions... tons of houses big enough to hold those HUMMERS. . 4000-8000++ sq ft houses with 4-8 car garages. I suppose at least 2 or 3 people occupy these small hotels. I wonder if they are going to all want to be on the natural gas line when it arrives from Alaska. No doubt they hooked up to the electric line that comes from a now aging Nuke near me. There is an application in to build two more Nukes but my children's grandchildren MAY see it build with all the stumbling blocks the green team has erected. HUMMM.... Our country MAYBE in trouble. YA THINK??